Events

Events

EVENTS

The Rock Ethics Institute frequently partners with affiliate faculty and departments as well as external organizations to host ethics-related events. To read more about our Co-Sponsorships and to apply for funding, please visit our Co-Sponsorships page.

This talk explores how social science disciplines such as anthropology have addressed the concepts of racism and white supremacy. Drawing on the exchange published as A Rap on Race between anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer James Baldwin that pitted them between racial liberalism and a critique of white supremacy, I focus on how their discussion highlighted religion and moral belief as integral concepts related to racism. In the Mead and Baldwin conversation, the connection of Christianity to white supremacy reveals a complex conjuring of Islam and Muslims that I describe as racecraft, and that have implications for how we continue to theorize and study white supremacy and racism.Sawyer Seminar Series: Juniad Rana - “Anthropology and the Riddle of White Supremacy” - Read More…